Explorer opening by itself

RonNewYork · 12 Mar 2018

I'm thinking it's this:

There are many instances of this, but why?

fdegrove · 12 Mar 2018

Hi,

Could it be the volume was marked "dirty" not too long ago ?
Athough it's "Clean" now, I'd still run chkdsk /r from an elevated command prompt on that volume.

Cheers,

RonNewYork · 12 Mar 2018

I'll try that!

dalchina · 12 Mar 2018

If your drive disconnects and reconnects, and Autoplay is set to view the drive in file explorer, file explorer will open showing the drive's contents. (Note my comment on Autoplay some time back).

simrick · 13 Mar 2018

dalchina said:

If your drive disconnects and reconnects, and Autoplay is set to view the drive in file explorer, file explorer will open showing the drive's contents. (Note my comment on Autoplay some time back).

Exactly Dalchina.

And if the drive is constantly disconnecting/reconnecting, Explorer will continue to open every time the drive reconnects.

fdegrove · 13 Mar 2018

Hi,

And if the drive is constantly disconnecting/reconnecting, Explorer will continue to open every time the drive reconnects.

Which will lead to corrupted files eventually. Hence the EV ID regarding Ntfs health.

Cheers,

RonNewYork · 13 Mar 2018

But this only occurs near or at ESENT

fdegrove · 13 Mar 2018

Hi,

RonNewYork said:

But this only occurs near or at ESENT

Those are informational messages. We all have these on our systems.It's not ESENT causing the problem it's just logging.

Cheers,

dalchina · 13 Mar 2018

Take a very practical approach. If you have a different drive/cable etc try those in the same USB connector. See if you can wobble them and find they disconnect. Is it the socket on your PC, the drive, the cable... swap them around until you can perhaps identify which it is- if any. Check it's not a simple hardware problem by logical elimination.

RonNewYork · 14 Mar 2018

Well, it's probably not ESENT. There were a number of ESENT entries in the Event Log but no corresponding opening of the drive. So it could be a cable or connector. But the USB drive does not move at all so the cable and connection are physically stable.